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This article describes a revenue and distributionally neutral approach to reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that uses a carbon tax. The revenue from the carbon tax is used to finance an environmental earned income tax credit designed to be distributionally neutral. The credit is linked to...
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the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …
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One country that tries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may fear that other countries get a competitive advantage and increase emissions ("leakage"). Estimates from computable general equilibrium (CGE) models such as Elliott et al (2010a,b) indicate that 15% to 25% of abatement might be offset...
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polices to manage quantities under a pollution tax. Importantly, it can be difficult to know how to evaluate these policies …
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We use field-level cost estimates of all oil and natural gas fields to highlight dynamic aspects of a global carbon tax. Some of the initial reduction in consumption will be offset through higher consumption later on. Only high-cost reserves will be priced out of the market, e.g., at 200 dollars...
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measures of air pollution such as SO2 concentrations. Perceptions that WTO panel rulings have interfered with the ability of …
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theoretical and empirical research to evaluate the effects of such reforms on tax revenue, pollution emissions, economic …
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.S. energy use and pollution emissions. On traditional efficiency grounds, each of the energy taxes emerges as more costly to the …
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This paper uses an updated and revised panel data set on ambient air pollution in cities world-wide to examine the … robustness of the evidence for the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between national income and pollution. We test … the sensitivity of the pollution-income relationship to functional forms, to additional covariates, and to changes in the …
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between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …
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